Problem description:

Will it affect people's immunity?

Analysis:

Don't cut it if you can.

The appendix itself is a member of the human immune system. Only when it can't help the victim, will it sacrifice itself to cause inflammation, which is what western medicine calls appendicitis. Appendectomy is generally very cautious, but the appendix itself is a member of the human immune system, but it will degenerate in adulthood, so surgery will affect it before 18 years old, and it will not reduce immunity after 18 years old. Lauren Martin, a professor of physiology at Oklahoma State University, recently pointed out through research that the appendix plays an important role in fetuses and adolescents. When the human embryo develops to about 1 1 week, endocrine cells appear in the appendix. These endocrine cells in the fetal appendix produce various biogenic ammonia and peptide hormones, as well as compounds that contribute to the biological control (self-balance) mechanism.

After the birth of the fetus, a small amount of lymphoid tissue began to accumulate in the appendix, which reached its peak at the age of 20-30, then declined rapidly and disappeared completely after the age of 60. In the early stage of human development, the appendix, as a lymphoid organ, contributes to the maturation of B lymphocytes. B lymphocytes are white blood cells that produce an antibody called immunoglobulin (I-gA). The researchers also found that the appendix is also involved in the production of a molecule that can directly help lymphocytes transfer to other parts of the body.

The function of the appendix also includes making white blood cells act on various antigens or foreign bodies existing in the gastrointestinal tract, so that the appendix may inhibit humoral antibody reactions that destroy blood and lymph, and promote local immune function. The appendix is like the thin structure of Pyle's lymph in other parts of the gastrointestinal tract-it absorbs antigens from intestinal contents and reacts to them. This local immune system plays an important role in biology and control of food, drugs, microorganisms and virus antigens. The relationship between these local immune systems and intestinal inflammation and autoimmune reactions related to the systemic immune system is still under study.